A grateful family with visits, and fun

Jenna's Grateful... for family visits! My mom has been visiting my sister and I now for a three days and it's been wonderful. I love when she comes to visit us because she makes us delicious dinners that we not only eat while she is in town, but for us to eat at later dates after she freezes it. She brings warmth into the house like hot chocolate does on a cold, stormy day. It really is so comforting to have you in our presence. To top off my mother being here was my cousin seeing my mom, sister and I for a half day despite our prior clashes with one another. She is a beautiful, intelligent, and very mature 21-year-old who can enlighten us all. My cousin had been working and interning in Washington D.C. for the entire summer and on her way home to McCall, Idaho stopped in SLC to see all of us with her boyfriend that now lives here. It was a very good visit surprisingly. I was so zealous to see her and get along with her as well. So tonight I am so grateful for great family who is always supportive, always loving and always wanting to visit you and make you dinners for future nights. Family is truly a gift all wrapped up in beautiful paper with a bow on top.

A few things to be grateful for!

Jenna's Grateful... For reasonable rent in a nice house owned by my sister. I have been struggling a bit with money lately, so it's nice to know that I am able to live in a nice place for a reasonable price. Thanks Jaron!

Is grateful for Salt Lake's summer days that are always so gorgeous, so warm, and so sunny. I haven't had a short storage of vitamin D since I've lived here do to the sunshine all year round. It's like southern California but with snow in the winter and less humidity in the summer.

Is grateful for her ability to start graduate school next Wednesday. I am so lucky, grateful and happy to know that I can afford to send myself to grad school. I was fortunate that my parents were willing to help pay for my undergraduate degree and that let me save money for graduate school. I am also grateful for governmental assistance to complete the ability to go to graduate school!

My last bit of gratitude today is towards my dogs. I am grateful for Tag and Smoot (our newest dog) because they are full of energy all the time, fun loving and are never mad at you. Actually all they want is to give you their love! Love that is always pure, always truthful and always soft.


side note...Tag is the one in the photo. He is six years old, and is one of a kind! He loves to chase birds, talk to us, chase balls, go swimming and lick off your skin!

Grateful health

Jenna's Grateful...Today I am grateful for how millions of Americans are taking a stand to show their opinion, their thoughts and their favors for or against health care reform in our country. It's so nice to see freedom of speech being displayed all across the U.S. Whether you support nationalized health care or not, people are making and taking a stand. I felt as if citizens in this country forgot what taking a stand was all about and now I see that we haven't. People of all sorts are coming together and demonstrating how they feel about this topic. Today there was a rally in Atlanta, GA. that 4.5 million people attended to get voices heard. If anything this health care talk is sparking people to action. So today, I am grateful for not only my ability to state my opinion on this very issue, and other issues, but grateful that myself and other Americans are taking a stand and telling our congressmen and women what we want and what we don't want. We are finally getting our voices heard and that my friends, is a beautiful thing!

A BOOK of gratitude!

Jenna's Grateful...So I have been a bit stressed with trying to finish this book that I am writing and then it occurred to me how lucky I am to be writing one. I was thinking about it so much last night and I realized that by the time I am 24 I will be a published author.  It didn't really hit me until last night that my book would be up for sale in numerous book stores across the country and maybe even in Japan too. Wow, what an accomplishment! I am so lucky to have been giving this opportunity from my father. I am so thankful to have a father that has work so hard for over 40 years to get where he is today not only for himself but for his family too. He has given me windows of opportunity to do whatever I want in the world, and without him and all of his hard work I would not be getting a book published. He has shown me how to work hard, but also how working hard can help me achieve all my dreams in my life! This is a dream come true and something I will be proud of for the rest of my life. Even I don't ever get published again, at least I was published one time in my life! I love how I will be able to show my future kids that I was a published author.  I will be ever grateful and happy for this opportunity. 

IPhone- more like ILife!

Jenna's Grateful... I Phones are truly a beautiful thing.  Talk about having everything you want on your phone! You need to check an email, no problem with the IPhone- you need to find out where you are going, good thing for the IPhone map that allows you to type in any address any place in the U.S. or even Canada from your current location and magically the phone gives you directions. I am so grateful to have been giving the opportunity to have an IPhone. While I hate being attached to my phone, I feel that we live in a time where that would happen regardless. With that said, I am grateful to be attached to my IPhone instead of my razor. The IPhone has brought simplicity to my life, which is a bit ironic for a phone that does so much! I find myself wasting less time while on the go then without it. So today I am grateful for that.